The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-07-16
Maryland Affairs.

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county died in Baltimore, on Tuesday, In his
6sth year.
Ex-Governor Carroll and family, OF Mary |
| land arrived on the steamship Trave, on the |
| sth inst, from Europe.
The number of deaths in Baltimore last |
week was 254, of which 157 were of children
under five years of age.
John Thomas Ross the Baltimore colored
ssburker," is to be hung on August 70, Tor the
murder of Emily Brown.
William L. Boyd, one of the supervisors OF
election of Baltimore, has forwarded ms res
4 ignation to Governor Lloyd
Vim. Aron, of Dorchester county, was kill
ed by lightning on Saturday. Almost every
bone in his body was broken.
VIM. +. Humphrey died near Rockville, on
Monday, from cholera morbus. He was 20
years old and was widely known.
! Miss Louisa Tilghman, sister Of Captain
t Richard LLOYD Tilghman of the U. ). Navy,
n died near Easton, on Monday, in her Goth
year.
From the LIST of June to the l4th of July
SIS children under years of age have died
l in Baltimore, owing TO the continued warm
weather.
4 Two trains collidcd at Gaithersburg, Mont
gomery county, on Thursday. Two ladies'
and one gentleman were injured, and several
cars derailed.
4 Mary Smith, near Snow Hill, was outraged
\ by Jesse Sturgis on Saturday last. Sturgis
| was arrested and confined in Jail. He IS
noted desperate.
Up to Friday noon no trace had been found
\ of the missing two year.old daughter OF Mr..
| William Clabaugh, residing near Sabllasville,
in Frederick county.
NJ NJ Mono,,Il xv,1nxu nf
I the late Alexander Mcdonald, an Old Defen
I der, died on Wednesday in Baltimore, in the
/ 93d year of her age. t-tsi
4 John L. Robbins, near Snow Hill, sowea
| sc bushels of wheat last fall and last week he
\ received from the thresher 1900 bushels. or
\ 333 bushels for each one seeded.
! James Z. Reeds house and barn, near
| Ocean City, were burned on Thursday. Five
| hundred bushels of corn, six calves and all
I the implements and harness were lost.
/ Phyllis Johnson, colored, widow of Charles
} johnson, died in Lower Oxford, Pa, July 8,
at the reported age of 100 years. She was
| born near Northeast, Cecil county, her owner
being William Mofett
Mrs. Cecilia S. Ijams, widow of the late
( ex-Sherif j. Plummer Ijams, of the first dis
I trict of Howard county, died suddenly at her
late home, near Leicester, on Saturday morn
| ing, aged "A years.
| At Oxford 60 men are daily engaged in
/ catching hard crabs. The men earn S1.50
! per day An average of $4,000 crabs are
/ caught each day and shipped to the cities.
| Cambridge also does large business in crabs.
Thomas Bean, of Howard county, was ar
rested and lodged in Jail on Saturday for an
assault with intent to kill George B. Watts on
| the Sunday previous. Bean escaped to Fred
| erick county, but was run down and commit
ed for the action of the grand jury.
James N Clair was arrested in Baltimore
on Saturday charged with having collected
pension of $1,000 for John and Perry Conway,
sons of deceased soldier, and retained 5000
of the money. He was held for hearing
before United States Commissioner.
| The sixth annual interstate conference of
the Womens' Christian Temperance Union,
will take place July &c at Mountain Lake
Park, and last three days. A number of tenn
| perance orators Of national reputation are on
the programme for addresses during the con-
| ference.
The wheat yield in Talbot this year is above
the average. Quite number of farmers have
reported unprecedented yield. Oxford Neck
farms have yielded on an average thirty.five
bushels to the acre. One farmer reports
yield of forty bushels to the acre. The hay
crop is also unusually fine.
The hardest fought municipal contest for
years took place in Annapolis on Monday
last. DIR. Abram Claude was the Democratic
candidate for Mayor, and James Munroe the
Republican. DR.. Claude's majority was 1873
| The council stands Democrats to 2Republi-
cans, one of the latter being negro.
! Last week two strangers visited Havre de
Grace and during their stay bought many
trifling articles rendering in pay silver dollars
Whom tho narphantS and othar bueina man
deposited their funds in bank it was found
1 that about 5000 silver dollars were counterz
felt The men unfortunately had left for I'M
known parts when the swinde was discovered. |
| Robert G. Mason, the colored boy who is
charged with attempted felonious assault in
Montgomery county, was lodged in jail at
Rockville on Wednesday. The boys father
resisted his arrest and made an assault on
the officer with hoe. Mason is u years old
and Miss NARROW 10. The young lady has
been afflicted almost since birth and is very
small in statue and slightly built.
Jonathan J. Farlow died in Crisfeld, on
Saturday, under circumstances indicating
poisoning. He had been married only six |
weeks, but he and his wife had many violent |
quarrels, and on Friday she bought strych-
nine, saying it was to kill rats. When told |
she was suspected of poisoning her husband
she tried to drown herself She was arrested
and placed in Jail.
Hon. Henry W. Archer died near Belair
on July g. aged "a years. He was one of the |
most prominent and influential men in the |
state. He had represented Hartford county |
in the legislature several times, and was |
member of the constitutional convention in |
| 1867. Mr.. Archer was Wing, but since the |
disruption of that party he has acted with the |
Democratic. He leaves five sons and three
daughters. His public and private life was
pure.
Darius C. Howell, of Howell Bros, wall. |
paper manufacturers, died near Gainesville |
on July 8, aged 6S. Emmanuel Reinhard, of |
Baltimore, died on July 10, aged SO. He |
was native of Bavaria and had lived in Bal |
timore so years. Mrs. Ann NJ. widow of the
late Col. James Polk, died in Baltimore. on
Sunday, aged IS; one of her daughters is the |
wife of ox-Gov. Enoch Louis Lowe, now a |
resident of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Phoebe
Smith died in Baltimore, on Sunday, aged 81. |
Mr.. Archibald Stirling, ST., president of
the Savings Bank of Baltimore, celebrated |
his eighty birthday on Wednesday, by a |
family reunion at his residence, in Baltimore. |
ALI of his children were present and also a
number ofhis grandchildren. Tho old gentle
man was delighted to see them and saluted |
each with loving grasp of the hand, acco a.
panied by pleasant words. Mr.. Stirling is |
still in good health, but has not been out of |
the house for some weeks. Mr. Stirling has
five children, twenty three grandchildren and
four great-grandchildren.
Ezra Whitman, editor of the Maryland
Farmer, died Wednesday morning at his resi-.
dence, in Baltimore. He was in his 10th wear.
| Up to last Saturday he had been remarka.
bly, vigorous and active man for his years.
On that day he was attacked with cholersl- {
morbus, and his strength was much reduced
in few hours. He rallied on Sunday, but
the improvement did not continue. Mr.. Whit
man was born in Bridgewater, Mass, moved
to Baltimore in 1843, and shortly after built
the first establishment for the manufacture of
plows south of Mason and Dixon's line. He
cast his first presidential vote for Andrew
jackson, and had remained steadfast Dem.
ocrat ever since.
Charles Painter, pioneer in the manufac
ture of ice-cream, and who, with his brother.
introduced that delicacy in this State over
forty years ago, died on Tuesday afternoon at
| the residence of his son-in-law DR. Charles